World Soccer

Jim HOLDEN

AT THE HEART OF THE GAME

American sports offer football a way out of this crisis

Alan Hansen, the ball-playing defender for Liverpool and Scotland in the 1980s who later became an intelligent pundit on BBC television, always cut to the heart of the matter when he spoke about football.

One of his favourite phrases was “speculate to accumulate”. If you wanted glory that was an essential

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